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    Dark Nantucket Noon: A Homer Kelly Mystery
    Dark Nantucket Noon: A Homer Kelly Mystery
    Dark Nantucket Noon: A Homer Kelly Mystery
    Audiobook8 hours

    Dark Nantucket Noon: A Homer Kelly Mystery

    Written by Jane Langton

    Narrated by Derek Perkins

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Transcendentalist scholar and former detective Homer Kelly agrees to defend a troubled young poet accused of killing her ex-loverrsquo;s new wife. To clear her name he must discover who set her up, and what happened during the two minutes of a Nantucket eclipse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJun 19, 2014
    ISBN9781622311149
    Dark Nantucket Noon: A Homer Kelly Mystery

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    • 4/5
      A slightly disappointing mystery was fully redeemed in my eyes by the location and atmosphere. A bizarre murder takes place during a solar eclipse. (Some issues with that, too.) But author Langton gives a tremendous amount of information on the biology of the island with its tides and wildlife. I grew up on Mass’s North Shore, and I was captivated by the immediacy of the descriptions. I’d recommend this cautiously to those who love the northeast coast, and are mystery lovers as well.
    • 4/5
      A slightly disappointing mystery was fully redeemed in my eyes by the location and atmosphere. A bizarre murder takes place during a solar eclipse. (Some issues with that, too.) But author Langton gives a tremendous amount of information on the biology of the island with its tides and wildlife. I grew up on Mass’s North Shore, and I was captivated by the immediacy of the descriptions. I’d recommend this cautiously to those who love the northeast coast, and are mystery lovers as well.
    • 4/5
      During the few minutes of darkness during a total eclipse of the sun, a young woman is murdered on Nantucket Island. Discovered standing over her is the poet & college professor Kitty Clark, spurned lover of the dead woman's husband. Will Homer Kelly be able to convince a jury of Kitty's innocence? Probably this mystery only deserves 3* but being from Massachusetts, I loved all the details and the line drawings about Nantucket in the book.
    • 4/5
      [Dark Nantucket Noon] is the second in the Homer Kelly mystery series. I have realized that I like mysteries because I usually like the personality of the detectives and I like for my characters to have something to do. I am not really trying to solve the puzzle. In this one I really liked Kitty Clark the murder suspect. She is an eccentric poet with a loose grasp on reality at the best of times. The author tells you all about life on Nantucket Island past and present also about Herman Melville and Quakers.
    • 2/5
      I was terribly disappointed in Ms. Langton's work; I really expected to enjoy her mysteries. This one had the most ridiculous premise to begin with - which I could have forgiven - and a hole a mile wide in the murder itself - which I cannot. I don't think I'll be taking any more of her works out for test drives.